"Only a fool humbles himself when the world……" — George R. R. Martin
"Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)"
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746 Quotes by George R. R. Martin
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I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good…
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful…
— Saint Augustine
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We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our…
— Paul Auster
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our…
— James A. Baldwin
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces.…
— Jean Baudrillard
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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
— Aeschylus
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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
— Sitting Bull
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they…
— Abdallah II
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If I do do a sequel, I'm going to have to know for sure that the script is better than…
— Nicolas Cage
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but…
— William Ellery Channing
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People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
— Anton Chekhov
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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